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The emporium for all things literary

Cucalorus is about film, not print, but one of its CONNECT panels has managed to draw a number of North Carolina’s finest writers. The topic is “Media Marriage,” a look at how text-driven publications, such as books, can combine with audio and video in new creative ways. It meets at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14, at the Ironclad Brewery, 115 N. Second St. Among the speakers will be Allan Gurganus (“Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All”), local author John Jeremiah… Read More »

About This Blog

This is an emporium for all things literary: occasional book reviews, local book news, items about authors (mostly from the Cape Fear area but occasional visitors) and miscellaneous rants.

The usual author is Ben Steelman, feature writer and book columnist for the Star-News. He’s that shaggy, slightly smelly character you spot lurking in the back aisles of your local bookstore. Physically, he has more than a passing resemblance to Ignatius J. Reilly, hero of John Kennedy Toole’s “A Confederacy of Dunces” — some observers have noted other parallels as well.